1173: Kicking off the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills GC
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What are the latest updates on the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills?
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the no laying up live show presented at always as always by our friends at Titleist Wednesday kicking off the US Open at Shinnecock here live. Thank you for joining us on a Wednesday afternoon. A lot to catch up on today. I am Solly joined by my esteemed colleagues. Mr. Big Randy. Hello, big. Hello, Solly. TC is here.
Hello, Solly. Big day for me. God save the king versus my Croatians. I'm house divided. I'm torn.
DJ Pie is here. Hello, Deej.
Greetings, guys. Ready for a big week. Let's get into it.
A lot to cover. We are going to chat some of the news and developments of the week as it relates to the championship. We're going to stay on US Open here, obviously, for quite some time. Check in on some press conferences, some quotes. DJ's got a little game prep for us. We're going to make our picks to win. Of course, our picks not to win. Also going to check in on the back half on some bigger news items that expand just beyond the championship. Rory had some quotes this week. Big announcement today from the USGA on the proposed rollback, all of that. So we'll get into that on the back half of the show. Didn't mean for this to be a transition right into the fact that we're brought to you by Titleist.
Get a quick shout out there. We got some great Inside the Robes content out on social this week, including a cool look at a practice round with Jackson Quiven.
How does the weather impact the U.S. Open preparations?
Go check out the Titleist YouTube channel. They make a lot of great stuff on there. And that's it. They want us to get right into the show. Guys, we got the talk of the week so far. The wind forecast for Thursday. It is massive wind gusts into the 40s. I think it's even higher projected now. I sent this graphic over to Cody earlier from Windfinder. I don't know if that's an approved wind site, TC, but I'm seeing gusts in the upper 40 miles an hour now in the early afternoon up to 47 miles an hour around 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Are we worried? Are we excited? Are we scared? TC, I'm going to go to you first.
It's... without knowing what model they're working off of, I can't know if it's approved or not. Uh, but directionally it looks, it looks correct. Uh, I'm excited. I'm excited. I think, uh, it, you know, Bodden hammer, one of the hammers was, was saying that they, they slowed the greens down to about 10 and a half to get ahead of it.
We'll get to, we'll listen to that clip shortly. Did Boden hammer, uh, explaining the, the setup and whatnot here shortly.
The thing that concerned me a little bit was him talking about the directional wind change heading into Friday and then especially Saturday where it starts coming out of the northwest. That could bode problems for some of our fun hole locations, Randy. So we'll see. As long as the greens, I don't care how fast they are, they damn well better be firm, though. All right? Talking to both the hammers here.
Reports are iffy on that as of now. I spoke to someone in the field. They said fairly receptive was decently receptive was the review had to think about down. It had to be downwind for me to think about it bouncing too much into the wind with a wedge. I got to worry about it spinning back at times. Again, that's as of Wednesday. But they're very clearly concerned about a potential stoppage in play tomorrow. If the wind that Neil and I saw on the media day was gusts into the low 30s, I really don't even know if what they've done to slow it down will be enough to stop play. If it reaches 47 miles an hour tomorrow, I think it could be a five and they may have to stop play tomorrow.
Randy, you're laughing at all this? It's kind of gust of 47. You're laughing over there? You think it's funny?
Literally, before we went live, DJ's like, what's up with all these Twitter weather people? Just predicting an apocalypse. Every day. I don't know, man. I refuse to get sucked in.
What insights were shared from the pre-tournament press conferences?
Listen, if it blows and it is hard AF tomorrow, I'm going to be super happy.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the latest updates on the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills?
0:06–2:00
2
How does the weather impact the U.S. Open preparations?
2:00–4:32
3
What insights were shared from the pre-tournament press conferences?
4:32–4:49
4
Who are the top picks to win the U.S. Open and why?
4:49–5:13
5
What are the major concerns regarding course conditions at Shinnecock?
5:13–5:15
6
How does the proposed rollback affect professional golfers?
5:15–6:48
7
What strategies are being discussed for fairway and green setups?
6:48–6:54
8
Why is shot-making emphasized in this year's U.S. Open?
6:54–1:14:10